Blood Donation Campaign

Last Sunday, my car club, Sakura Stallionz, organized a blood donation campaign in Tropicana City, PJ. This campaign was featured on The Star Newspaper as well as Sin Chew Daily 1 week prior. I brought a few of my friends to support this event! My friends and I came early to help the organizers set up the tables and stuff.




This is the result of the arrangement. The organizers supported the event even further by registering themselves as donors immediately after they were free.



Several of the donors are already registered donors, however, it was going to be my first time donating blood to save the world! I was unexpectedly calm and not nervous at all! As soon as I had the chance, I rushed to the counter where I filled up a form which consists of general "yes and no" questions.



After spending less than 5 minutes filling up the form, I then headed to the second counter where the doctor there took a drop of my blood from my finger to test my blood group and took some extra blood samples for I don't know what.



Before he the needle had penetrated my skin, I admitted that I was a tiny bit scared as I seldom have my blood taken from my finger. The doctor just smiled and comforted me saying that it will be painless. He was absolutely correct! It was definitely painless! An ant would have hurt more.

The whole process took about 2 minutes or so. I was then guided over to the third counter where a female doctor sat an that place was a "forbidden area". They did not allow anyone else to be there other than the doctor and the patient. Not even other medical personnel were allowed there. This was the place where the doctor took my blood pressure and asked me about more sensitive questions such as if I had multiple sex partners or if I had worked as a prostitute.



I was just joking about the prostitute part but... yeah, you get the drift. Finally, on I go to the reclining chairs thingy where I layed down and readied myself for the needle penetration part. First, they tighten a band around my biceps and gave me some PVC pipe thing to squeeze on. She then injected me through my veins to make my whole arm numb so that I would not feel any pain while donating blood. Then, here comes the huge needle! I watched it pierced through my skin without a pain.



Chill ran down my spine as the thought of the needle piercing through my skin. But I can assure you that it was a totally painless procedure. As you can see in the picture, I was actually enjoying it. While the blood went to the bag, the doctor diverted some of the blood to another smaller bag. She then took the bag and informed me that it was going to go through tests to confirm that my blood is safe. Funnily, after just 5 minutes, the bag is full and she removed the needle and gave me a cotton to put pressure on the "wounded" area. After two minutes of pressure, a plaster was used to cover up the wound.

I was then treated to some snacks and warm milo by them.



There was also a certificate of appreciation on the table where they thanked me for donating blood to save a life. I was really happy just by doing it knowing that I could be saving someone just by doing so. It is known that blood has a limited shelf life, especially the platelets which can lasts up to only 4 days from the donation date! However, the platelets are always finished before they even expire!

Later on, I wanted to have a proper meal as it was approaching my lunch time. My friends and I headed on to 1901 to have some hotdogs! They could see that even though I had donated blood, I was still hyper and still had my suction capabilities to levitate a paper cup!



I then took a photo with Cindy for the memories as I would not be seeing her too often. She is going off to Setapak to further on her studies.




I then went back up to the donating site to have a look. Mixo (http://shuttermixo.blogspot.com) seemed to have a tired back after all the hard work. So off he went to the massage chair which was "strategically" located nearby the area.



He went on enjoying it for 2 minutes where he sounded as if he had an orgasm. Don't believe me? Here's some evidence:



After the orgasm was over, I roamed around to look at the reactions of the donors. Some were happy and still energetic but some were just tired.



I especially like the expression on Captain Ray's face:



At the end of the day,I felt dead tired as I was there from 9 am till 5 pm but nevertheless, it was an awesome day! I would definitely make myself free for the next blood donation campaign.